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A New Breed of Productivity Tools Emerges…
Consolidation tools are here to give you a bird’s eye view
3 min readJun 23, 2021
Continued innovation in the productivity space has given us many exciting features and apps in the last few years. The wiki movement gave us Notion, the bi-directional popularity gave us Obsidian and Roam and the APIs gave us a better way to connect our favorite productivity tools together.
Now a new type of application aims to compete against the all-in-one productivity app by a different approach.
Tools, in which I’m calling “consolidation apps” are producing a holistic view of all the tools you use, rather than trying to replace them.
Essentially, if you used Trello, Todoist and Google Calendar — instead of trying to replace them, tools are becoming the hub for them.
